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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>
Subject: Re: Results: Zlatko's new vm patch
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Note that there are very few people who are testing interactive feel. I'd
> be happier with more people giving more subjective comments on how the
> system feels under heavy memory load. 

With my latest free_user_and_cache() (arca-vm >= 16) you can't get bad
iteractive performances. Usually bad iteractive performances are due
unbalaced algorithms in the big try_to_free_pages() path.

Andrea Arcangeli

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